Political-economic Correlates of Environmental Policy

Andreas Kammerlander () and Günther Schulze

No 39, Discussion Paper Series from Department of International Economic Policy, University of Freiburg

Abstract: Does globalization lead to environmental degradation? What is the role of democracy for environmental performance and do left-wing governments really care more about the environment? Using a comprehensive measure of environmental performance, we test these three hypotheses for a panel of 134 countries for the period 2007-2016. Our findings show that globalization leads to better environmental performances. Interestingly, this result is predominantly driven by social, not by economic or political globalization. Although we find evidence that left-wing governments perform better than right-wing governments, it is centrist governments that have the highest environmental performance. The political system, i.e. democracy, turns outinsignificant in all specifications.

Keywords: Environment; Globalization; Political Orientation; Democracy; Environmental performance index; KOF globalization index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F64 O13 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2020-05, Revised 2020-05
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